Improved washing-machine



NITRO STATES ATENT Genion.

sl'iTII T. OOnNnLL `AND BURTON BROWN, O F JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS;

HVlFPtt/EDl WASHING-MACHIN E.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.A 413,672. dated August Q, 1864.

they can be washed by hand, with less labor end' no more wear on the clothes, and one that is free from the disagreeable splashing of Water incident to wnshingl by hand'andbymany other machines. A

The body'of the machine-A A,Figure1,is a square box of Wood'. The lid"or cover B, Figs. l and 2, is of the same material and is fastened to the sides of4 the machine by hooks and staples, one of which is seen at U,Fig. 1. On the cover two upright iron posts, D D, Fig'. ar e fastened by the screws EE, Fig. 2. A

. cross-pieoeof iron, F, Figs. l and 2, connects these posts,"and inl the middle of this cross:

.piece is' an iron collar, G, Figs. l and 2, in

'which revolves an'iron gudgeon H, Fig. 1, on the end of a wooden shaft, I, Figsl and 2. At the top of this shaft is a beveled cog-Wheel, K, Figs. l and 2, fitting to and supported `by the section of a cog-wheel, L, which Works in a `movable joint, M,'Fig. 1, which is fastened l t) the lid by/the plate N, Fig. 2.'-

O,.Figs. l and 2, is a handle or lever, by which they section of a cog-wheel, L, is moved back and forth, and motion is thus commnnirated by the beveled cog-Wheel K to the shaft l. The beveled shape of the cogs on the Wheel i K, byl fitting closely to the cogs on the section of a cog-wheel, L, maintains the shaft I inits 'place and pretjentsit-ffrom being thrown' out of gearing when the lid is removed from the niachine.

The drawings show the side of the-machine,

Fig. 1, as broken away, to show the interior arrangement thereof'. The lower part of the shaft I is square, and on each of the fou'r sides a hole is bored obliquely into it. Into these holes the round arms or pins P P I P are driven.

These arms extendobliquel y to-ncar the bottom of the machine. v

' The machine being square andthe motio'n ot the arms-P being circular, there'is more'ot' an irregular friction produced on the clothes by thecorners and sides of themachine, and there isalso a counter-current of Water pro- -dnced by thecorners ot the machine, both of' which assist materially in Washing the clothes, and will accomplish the Work in much less 4time than if the. body ofthe machine `was round.

The arrangements of theiparts of the ma-v chine are such'that by moving the handle 4O back and forth, motion is com municated by the cogwrheels to the shaft I' and the arms P P P P, which act upon the clothes in the box.

What We claim as newin ourlinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The shaftl I, the' a-rms`P,`the cog-wheels L and K, and the square box A, constructed and used in combination, substantially as set forth.

SETE T. CORNELL'.

BURTON BROWN.

'Witnesses LEONIDAs G. EBEY, WM. BUOKINGIIAM. 

